reply to post by jam321
Thanks for your help and sure ... lot still to be clarified
Hopefully though, you'll all come out of it by keeping more of your earnings while having less stress and worry to contend with when the unforeseen
occurs and your or yours has to make an emergency dash to hospital
Still can't believe Americans have been saddled with such high health costs for so long
We employed a young Chinese girl a few years ago. She was dismissive of so many of what she considered to be 'old people' still in the workforce in
our country. She expressed disgust, lol .. actually wrinkled her nose
So we asked her about China and were astonished to learn from her that the majority of Chinese live all their lives in houses owned by their
government. For example, she and her parents lived in a house passed down by her grandparents, who in turn had had it passed down from theirs
She said all repairs to the house were paid by the government
At that point, I explained to her that the reason so many 'old people' in our country were still in the workforce was because no-one gives us a
house that we can pass down to our kids. We have to pay for our homes ourselves and thanks to interest-rates, we end up paying as much as three times
the original purchase price of that house, plus we have to pay approx. $25,000 to the government in Stamp Duty every time we purchase an average
family home (and most people move a few times during their lives). On top of that, we pay Council Rates yearly and we pay for all the upkeep and
maintenance
I thanked her though for opening my eyes about China. I'd had no idea their government provided homes for them. A home is said to be the largest
single purchase most people make in their entire lives, and here were these 'poor Communists' getting a far better deal from their governments that
we in the West get from ours
When she left, I told her to tell as many of her countrymen as she could about the 'rich West', where people work all their lives in order to pass
on to their children what Chinese receive for free
Both she and I learned something that day